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Light Welling House Makazi ya Familia Moja by Teruo Miyahara

Light Welling House Makazi ya Familia Moja by Teruo Miyahara is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Majengo, Ujenzi na Miundo Competition Category.


ShabaUsanifu wa Majengo· 2020

Light Welling House Makazi ya Familia Moja

by Teruo Miyahara

Client: Mr. and Mrs. Uc

Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award Winner in Usanifu wa Majengo Category

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The Design

About Light Welling House Makazi ya Familia Moja

Light Welling House ni makazi ya familia moja yaliyojitenga, yaliyojengwa kwenye eneo jembamba la mjini Tokyo. Eneo hilo ni dogo na lenye umbo lisilo la kawaida, hivyo mwanga wa asili haukuweza kupatikana kutoka pande za mashariki au magharibi. Kwa hiyo, ngazi ziliundwa kama njia ya mwanga. Vipande vya ngazi vimetengenezwa kwa chuma chenye matundu, na sehemu ya ngazi ina kuta za kioo, hivyo mwanga wa mchana unafika kila chumba na kusafirishwa kutoka ghorofa ya juu hadi ghorofa za chini. Nafasi ya ngazi iliwekwa kwa kuhesabu mwinuko wa jua wakati wa msimu wa baridi. Vyumba vimemaliziwa kwa rangi nyeupe ili kueneza zaidi mwanga uliokopwa.

The Recognition

About the Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award

Light Welling House Makazi ya Familia Moja ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa unaotolewa kwa miundo bora inayotofautishwa kwa ubunifu, ustadi na busara. Washindi wa Shaba ni kazi za ufundi mwingi na bunifu ya kushangaza zinazothibitisha uzoefu mpana, mawazo na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. Light Welling House Makazi ya Familia Moja inatarajiwa kuwa kitu kinachothaminiwa sana, kupendwa na kuenziwa, ambacho ni cha kitaalamu na bunifu kwa kiasi kikubwa. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award unajumuisha mbinu bora katika sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia, na ni bora kwa umakini wake kwa undani. Light Welling House Makazi ya Familia Moja hutosheleza mahitaji kwa uzuri, hugusa hamu, huvutia hisia na kuvutia udadisi.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
The client felt that a residence was a form of self exposure to the outer world. In order to live up to his expectations, this house was designed to imply the essence of the house within the urban context by bringing out the characteristics of the finishing material that was chosen. The concrete exterior walls were coated with lean mix acrylic paint, resulting in a black mottled effect according to the difference in the degree of water absorption and smoothness of the surface.
Dimensions & Packaging
The stairs are made of perforated metal to let the light seep through, and the stairwell has glass walls to allow the light to shine into each room as well as to lead and reflect the light from the top to lower levels. The positioning of the stairs was also a critical factor and therefore designed carefully, calculating the altitude of the winter sun. Moreover, the room interior was finished in white, so that the rooms would be able to borrow light in addition to having direct sunlight.
Tags
Narrow site, Light well, Mottled wall, Continuous windows, Zinc coated steel sashes, Raw brass sashes
Production Technology
On this project we designed all furnitures, all storage, kitchen set, dining table, stool, by our original design. And also we designed big sized zinc coated steel sashes. All because we needed to keep pureness of our design for the space of this house.
Design Challenge
The concrete exterior walls were coated with lean mix acrylic paint, resulting in a black mottled effect according to the difference in the degree of water absorption and smoothness of the surface. The zinc coated steel sashes were dipped in phosphate to strengthen the zinc layer, and the difference in the amount of zinc coating on the sashes projected a black patchy effect.
Research
This house is a residence designed for a couple in their 30s and their daughter. It is standing on a small and narrow site of irregular shape. The site measures approximately 57 m2 in size: approximately 12 meters deep, 6 meters across where it faces the north road, and 2.7 meters across at the deepest end. The design for this house therefore needed to focus on the ideal form of an urban detached house within the constraints of the site itself as well as laws and regulations.
Inspiration
This house is located in a residential area in the western part of Tokyo. The site itself is a narrow and small with the north side touching the road. Since natural lighting could not be anticipated from the east or west sides, how to bring light into the residence was a major issue that needed to be solved at a high level.
Our solution for this house to ensure natural lighting was to design the stairs as a path of light that would be able to distribute natural light to each room.
Project Duration
The project started in April 2004 and finished in May 2005 in Tokyo Japan.
Operation Flow
For the interior of the house, the first floor consists of an independent bedroom and bathroom. The second floor has a main room with a ceiling that partially opens onto the third floor; this aspect and the stairs made of perforated metal also contribute to the open feel of the main bedroom and tearoom on the third floor. The partitions were made of transparent glass and Japanese paper blinds so as not to divide the atmosphere.
Patents
Miyahara architect office LLC
Team Members
Teruo Miyahara
Akira Ouchi
Image Credits
Mitsumasa Fujitsuka
Miyahara architect office LLC

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